Sentences with phrase «one's more affluent counterparts»

«Unfortunately, there is simply no evidence that efforts to raise test scores will provide poor, minority, and bilingual students with the kind of high quality education that their more affluent counterparts receive,» said Mindy L. Kornhaber, the volume's co-editor.

Fourth graders in the nation's poorest schools are two to four levels behind their more affluent counterparts, a federal report says.

Children who live in poverty are as worthy of attending good schools as their more affluent counterparts, and much is known about what it takes to transform schools into places that better meet their needs.

To ensure that low - income schools are funded at equal levels with their more affluent counterparts, Congress should update the law and close the comparability loophole in the following three ways:

Overall, Black, Latino, and low - income students have significantly lower college graduation rates than their White and more affluent counterparts.

This bodes well for the future of working and middle class families, who make more use of home ownership as a vehicle for wealth - building than do their more affluent counterparts.

It has been proposed that increased access to high - quality Pre-Kindergarten programs for all low - income children would enhance achievement and narrow the achievement gap found between children from low - income families and their more affluent counterparts.